Scaffold-bracket



C. BUECHEL.

SCAFFOLD BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28.1920.

Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

Carl Bue cheZ CARL BUECHEL, OF NEW GLARUS, WISCONSIN.

SCAFFOLD-IBRAGKET.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL BUEoHnL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Glarus, in the county of Green, State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scaffold-Brackets; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in'the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to scaffolds, and more especially to brackets adapted to support the same; and the object of the invention is to produce an improved bracket par-' ticularly applicable to shingle roofs.

A further object is to produce an extremely simple and cheap device of this character folclable into as small compass as possible.

Details are set forth below and shown in the drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one corner of a building showing one use of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bracket itself, showing its tongues in dotted lines as folded.

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section through the bracket, showing it applied to the shingles of a roof.

This bracket is made up of a base plate 1 formed originally rectangular and with teeth 2 at its lower end which are subsequently bent down as perhaps best seen in Fig. 3 so as to enter the shingles S of a roof, the upper end of the plate constituting a flat lip for insertion under the shingles of a row farther up the roof. Upon said plate a block 3 is secured by bolts 4 and 5, the block having at its upper face a socket 6 for the reception of the tip of a hook H from which a scaffold or painters ladder L may be suspended as seen in Fig. 1. Overlying the block are two tongues 7 whose lower ends are mounted under the nuts of the upper bolts 5 in such position that these tongues Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. '19, 1921.

Application filed July 28, 1920. Serial No. 399,551.

When the tongues are swung upward as shown in full lines in this view and in Fig. 3, a scantling'or board B may be laid on the base plate against the upper edge of the block and under the tongues, and thus two of these brackets may be used to support a scaffolding upon the roof so that the shingles maybe repaired or painted or, in fact, so that the shingles may be applied in case the building is in the course of erection. This use of the device assumes that there are at least two of them, as will be understood. For protecting the block against undue wear, its upper face may be covered with a plate 8 underlying the nuts of the bolts and the ward. Thus ifsuch walls become worn by I repeated and careless use of the hooks H whose tips may be jammed into the sockets, the upper plates yet define the mouths of the sockets so thatthe hooks will not slip from the same.

What is claimed:

As a new article of manufacture, a shingle bracket comprising a metallic base plate whose upper end constitutes a lip for insertion under the shingles of one row and whose lower end is toothed and bent downwardfor engagement with the shingles of a lower row, a block upon said. plate and having a socket in its upper face for the tip of a scaffold supporting hook, a wear plate overlying said face and having an opening surrounding said socket, bolts through the plates and the interposed block, and a pair of tongues pivotally mounted at their lower ends on the upper bolts and adapted to be turned over said plate andblock or to be swung into position above said lip. In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL BUECHEL. WVitnesses:

J. JACOB FIGI, JAooB S. AOHEN. 

